How big a deal is this? Potentially, it’s a very big deal. The amount involved is $969B!

There are two lists. This first one looks at the spending for which the necessary enabling legislation has already expired:

This one is for those expenditures whose authorizations expire on or before September 30 of this year:

You might rightly ask, “What’s that big chunk of money being spent on?” The biggest chunk is the military (68%). Even with partisan politics and an election year, the military will likely get its money without much of a fight. The CBO report spells out where the rest of the dough is being spent. (It runs 100 pages.) Some snippets: